Author: Richings, Gordon.
Title: The Life and Work of Charles Michell.
Description: Fernwood Press. Simon's Town 2006 1st edition. Gilt on dark blue cloth boards. 224pp illustrated oblong 4to. 1.4kg. A Mint unmarked copy in matching dustwrapper. Gift quality. ISBN: 9781874950813 Charles Cornwallis Michell, the first Surveyor General of the Cape Colony, is remembered today chiefly for the Michell's Pass named after him. As a young man he served in the Peninsular War in some of its bloodiest battles. After lecturing at Sandhurst and Woolwich he departed for the Cape in 1828 to take up his new appointment and spent the next twenty years building roads, bridges, and mountain passes including Sir Lowry's, Mitchell's. and Montagu Passes. He applied his engineering skills to Table Bay Harbour and lighthouses at Mouille Point, Cape Agulhas, and Cape Recife to protect shipping along the notorious Cape coastline. This biography is the result of much original research and detective work. Private diaries and sketchbooks have provided new information allowing a detailed biography of the man. It also sheds light on such contemporaries as Governors Sir Lowry Cole and Sir Harry Smith. An extremely well illustrated work with many contemporary plans, drawings, and paintings including work by Michell himself. We note one chapter devoted to the 6th Frontier War.

Keywords: africa african south southern western cape colony biography charles michell sir lowry cole sir harry smith lighthouses mouille point cape agulhas cape recife table bay harbour sixth 6th frontier war


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